Tombstone epitaph., 1887-11-26
THE HOWARD MINE.
A Committee of Citizens Visit 1t and Submit
 Their Report.

A committee consisting of Governor Zulick, Levi Bashford, John H. Marion, T. w. Otis, D. J. Sullivan, R. H. Bur mister, H. A. Bigelow and w. C. Hazel tine, was appointed at citizen's meeting at Prescott to visit and report upon the Howard mine. The following is the report:
 "The Howard mining claim, the excep. tional richness of which has caused con- siderable excitement in Prescott during the past ten days, is situated on the up- per Hassayampa creek, about nine miles nearly due south of Prescott. It is ap- proachable by wagon road within a few hundred yards in two directions, by the Prescott and Bradshaw wagon road, which crosses the vein 8oo or 1000 feet north of the shaft in which the mineral is found, and by the road to the old Chase mine that ends at that point about the same distance south of the shaft. There is also trail to Harlan's cabin, which runs between the two roads.
 "The veinis no new strike. On the con- trary, it is an old location, and its ores have been known for years to be worth about S24 per ton. While dsing the lit. te work required by the United States mining laws for the present year, the own. CTS started to sink shaft on the vein on the hillside between the creek and the Prescott and Bradshaw roads. At the depth of seven feet a blast was put in, which opened pocket of wonderfully rich ore, as is evident from the fact that from oreloosenedup by the blast, the own CT pounded out lot of gold which was brought to town, melted, run into bar, and sold to the Bank of Arizona, which contained SI,I4e9I in gold and s2I.os in silver.
 "The work of the succeeding four days, from the same methods of working, resulted in the production of another bar, which MT. w. E. Hazeltine, cashier of the Bank of Arizona, produced at the meeting, containing sI,o2s.s3 gold and SIS silver. The value of both bars is s.. 2I5.52.
 "In addition to the bars, MT. Harlan has sold quite quantity of the ore for cabinet specimens, and has a lot on hand which it is proposed shall be reduced in gold bars at his leisure, and also three or four tons of ore on the dump at the shaft, estimated to be worth, perhaps, SIoo per ton.
 "Harlan's statement is that the whole amount so far taken out, will not exceed N,oc }, all of which has been found in sinking the last three feet in the bottom of the shaft.
 "Hon. Levi Bashford produced a piece ofore that came out of the bottom of the shaft, which Frank Alters picked up on the dump, and MT. Bashford bough, of Harlan, that weighs three pounds and seven ounces, (and is now on exhibition at Bones fruit store,) which good judges estimates contains about $50 to S6o in gold.
 "The members of the committee who examined the vein above and below the shaft, state that on the Howard claim, the ledge is exposed for a distance oi 1000 feet or more, in little holes and cuts, which show from six to ten inches of ore ofthe same character as that a, the shaft, on the surface, showing in pan or horn spoon washing a value of $25 or $50 per ton, and that the rich ore in the bottom ofthe shaft apparently pitches in northerly direction into the hill, and that prospect of a continuous body of rich ore for at least three hundred feet above the shaft, is most excellent judging from all of the surface indica. tisns."